Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Home Office

Oral Answers to Questions

Diane Abbott Excerpts
Monday 28th February 2022

(2 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Kit Malthouse Portrait Kit Malthouse
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I have committed before, and I am happy to do so again, that before the end of the Parliament we will produce a new funding formula to ensure that my hon. Friend’s constituency gets exactly what he deserves, as indeed he should.

Diane Abbott Portrait Ms Diane Abbott (Hackney North and Stoke Newington) (Lab)
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Does the Home Secretary accept that many Members of this House are dismayed that she did not make a statement in the normal way, so that she could have been questioned in the normal way? Does she further accept that that is not just disrespectful to the House of Commons, but it shows a lack of real concern for those desperate people escaping Ukraine?

Priti Patel Portrait Priti Patel
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I completely reject the right hon. Lady’s latter point, and naturally I will always be happy to return to the House and take questions.